The National Zoo's panda cub has a name: Bao Bao

In this handout image provided by Smithsonian's National Zoo, the zoo's seven-week-old panda cub is examined October 15, 2013 in Washington, DC (Courtney Janney/Smithsonian's National Zoo)

WASHINGTON — The world's most adorable captive animal finally has a name.

At a National Zoo ceremony Sunday, complete with lion dancers and delectable Chinese snacks, Smithsonian officials and Chinese diplomats celebrated the giant panda cub's first 100 days of life by revealing the results of an online vote to name her.

The name of the cuddly treasure, certain to soon adorn numerous tchotchkes and stimulate the zoo's gift shop economy, is — Chinese drum roll — Bao Bao. It means precious or treasure and is pronounced “bough bough.”

More than 123,000 votes came in from around the world, though that was well short of the 200,000 votes cast in 2005 to name Bao Bao's brother Tai Shan.

Panda obsessors who don't like the final result, or the choices to begin with, should point fingers at the following name nominators: China's ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai; Gary Locke, the U.S. ambassador to China, and his family; the panda's keepers at the zoo; Chinese panda keepers in Wolong; and Friends of the National Zoo.

“We all feel like proud parents as we see her grow up before our eyes,” said one of the event's speakers, Kerri-Ann Jones, assistant secretary of the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.

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Bao Bao, born on Aug. 23, spent much of the morning lying on her side, either asleep or bored. She occasionally wiggled her toes.

But just before the announcement, a screen on stage showing the panda cam displayed Bao Bao's mother going in to cuddle with her.

There were many oohs and aahs from the assembled important people in reserved seats and zoo-goers crowded in behind them on an elevated platform.